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Court case progresses in alleged 'Juggalo' attack
Police: One charged had tattoo for Insane Clown Posse
A jury is expected to be selected this week for the trial of two young men charged with beating Noel Lopez to death in the 900 block of Seventh Avenue, according to prosecutors.
Lopez died April 14, 2008 -- a result of an intense beating that caused injuries to the 25-year-old's brain and caused a fractured rib to pierce a lung, according to court documents.
Steven D. Bauder, 25, and Marcus D. Dennis, 22, have been charged with first-degree murder.
Bauder is a "Juggalo" -- a follower of the hip-hop group Insane Clown Posse -- and "referred to himself as an 'enforcer' and 'protector' of kids on the street," Detective Russ Weklych wrote in a probable cause document.
Court documents state Bauder has a tattoo of a running hatchet man, meaning he is a fan and follower of the Insane Clown Posse and their label, Psychopathic Records.
After Lopez wrestled the men in separate matches at Freeway Park, they went to get beer and walked to a Seventh Avenue construction site, police say.
Bauder allegedly said that Lopez lunged at him first while they were at the site.
"Bauder gave a detailed videotaped statement where he admitted to the attack on the victim … but attempted to minimize his involvement in the attack," Weklych wrote.
Dennis allegedly told police that Bauder took Lopez to the construction site to talk about what he was doing with girls on the street. A 15-year-old friend of Dennis -- a girl he described as his street sister -- had complained to him about Lopez's behavior, according to court documents.
Court documents state the beating that killed Lopez lasted hours, despite his pleas to stop.
Two days after Lopez's body was found by workers at the construction site, a 23-year-old man came to police saying he heard the attackers bragging and laughing about the beating at a Seattle youth homeless shelter.
Police arrested Bauder without incident in Federal Way the following week. Dennis, whose only previous Washington case is a theft charge in Seattle Municipal Court, was arrested on Fourth Avenue.
Opening statements in the case are expected later this month.


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Tycho/Target Platform
The target platform is the set of artifacts from which Tycho resolves the project's dependencies.
Background: OSGi allows to specify dependencies with version ranges and package dependencies (Import-Package). These dependencies (intentionally) do not map to unique artifacts. In order to pick a set of concrete bundles to be used for compilation, test execution, and assembly, Tycho needs a set of candidate artifacts which may be used to match the dependencies. This list of candidate artifacts is called the "target platform". The process of selecting artifacts from the target platform according to the project's dependencies is called "dependency resolution".
There are different ways to define the content of the target platform; the most common ones are repositories with layout=p2 in the POM, which add entire p2 repositories to the target platform, or target definition files for more fine-grained control.
Which approach should I use for the target platform for my project?
Since there are a few different ways to configure a target platform in Tycho, here are some rule of thumbs for the most common cases:
- If you are already using a target file in Eclipse, and that target file only contains location elements with type="InstallableUnit", use that target file for the Tycho build. In all other cases, it is not possible to share the target platform configuration between Tycho and Eclipse.
- If you don't care about individual bundles and versions, just configure the needed p2 repositories in the POM and have Tycho pick anything required from these repositories.
- If you want control over the which bundles/bundle versions are visible to the build, use a target file.
Target platform configuration
The target platform is defined through POM configuration (see details below). Each module has its own target platform, although with the normal configuration inheritance in Maven, the target platform configurations are usually the same across multiple modules.
Simple target platform configuration
In order allow Tycho to resolve the project dependencies against anything from a specific p2 repository, add that repository in the <repositories> section of the POM. Example:
<repository> <id>eclipse-indigo</id> <url>http://download.eclipse.org/releases/indigo</url> <layout>p2</layout> </repository>
In terms of the target platform, this means that the entire content of the p2 repositories specified in this way become part of the target platform.
Background: In a normal (i.e. non-Tycho) Maven project, one can configure Maven repositories which can be used by Maven to resolve the project dependencies. While Maven repositories cannot be used directly (see below for an indirect approach), Tycho can use p2 repositories for resolving OSGi dependencies. The p2 repositories need to be marked with layout=p2. (The normal Maven dependency resolution ignores repositories with layout=p2.)
Target files
The PDE target definition file format (*.target) allows to select a subset of units (bundles, features, etc.) from one or more p2 repositories. In order to add the content of a target definition file (see "Content" tab of the Target Editor) to the target platform in the Tycho build, configure the target file in the target-platform-configuration build plugin. Example:
<plugin> <groupId>org.eclipse.tycho</groupId> <artifactId>target-platform-configuration</artifactId> <version>${tycho-version}</version> <configuration> <target> <artifact> <groupId>org.example</groupId> <artifactId>target-definition</artifactId> <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <classifier>targetFileNameWithoutExtension</classifier> </artifact> </target> </configuration> </plugin>
The target definition file then needs to be placed in the root of project with the specified GAV.
Note: Tycho has only limited support for target definition files:
- The location types "Directory", "Installation", and "Features" are not supported.
- The selection on the Content tab of the Target Editor is ignored, i.e. it is not possible to de-select individual bundles for the Tycho target platform.
"POM dependencies consider"
OSGi bundles from Maven repositories can be added to the target platform in the following way:
- Specify a dependency to the OSGi bundle artifact in the POM's <dependencies> section.
- Set the configuration parameter pomDependencies=consider on the target-platform-configuration plugin
This configuration has the following effect:
- First, Maven resolves the GAV dependencies according to the normal Maven rules. This results in a list of artifacts consisting of the specified artifacts and their transitive Maven dependencies.
- Tycho then considers each of these artifacts for the target platform: if the artifact is an OSGi bundle, it is added to the target platform. Other artifacts are ignored. OSGi bundles which become part of the target platform in this way are then available to resolve the project's OSGi dependencies.
For an example, see the POM of this demo project.
Effective content of the target platform
In case multiple target platform configuration approaches are combined (which should be rarely necessary), the target platform contains the union of the content defined through each approach.
Apart from the explicitly configured content, the target platform also contains the following artifacts:
- Other artifacts from the same reactor
- Locally built artifacts in the local Maven repository
TODO Option to exclude locally built artifacts from the target platform (bug 355367)
Since Tycho 0.14.0, it is possible to selectively remove content from the target platform. This for example allows to restrict the version of a bundle, or to select one particular provider for a package. Filtering is done as last step in the target platform computation, so the filters apply to all sources listed above.
The filters are specified in the target-platform-configuration build plugin:
<plugin> <groupId>org.eclipse.tycho</groupId> <artifactId>target-platform-configuration</artifactId> <version>${tycho-version}</version> <configuration> <filters> <!-- example 1: restrict version of a bundle --> <filter> <type>eclipse-plugin</type> <id>org.eclipse.osgi</id> <restrictTo> <versionRange>[3.6,3.7)</versionRange> <!-- alternative: <version> for selecting exactly one versions --> </restrictTo> </filter> <!-- example 2: remove all providers of the package javax.persistence except the bundle javax.persistence --> <filter> <type>java-package</type> <id>javax.persistence</id> <restrictTo> <type>eclipse-plugin</type> <id>javax.persistence</id> </restrictTo> </filter> <!-- example 3: work around Equinox bug 348045 --> <filter> <type>p2-installable-unit</type> <id>org.eclipse.equinox.servletbridge.extensionbundle</id> <removeAll /> </filter> </filters> </configuration> </plugin>
- The filters will only remove content from the target platform; they will not add new content. If you specify a restriction that is not fulfilled by any of the units from the target platform sources, all units that the filter applies to (i.e. units that match the filter.type, filter.id, and filter.version/versionRange criteria) will be removed from the target platform.
- Package provider restrictions work by removing all other bundles exporting the package. This means that these other bundles (and the packages only exported by them) won't be available in your build.
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Small Planets Don't Need 'Heavy Metal' Stars to Form
The formation of small worlds like Earth previously was thought to occur mostly around stars rich in heavy elements such as iron and silicon.
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(June 13)
Herschel Sees Intergalactic Bridge Aglow With Stars
The Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars.
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(May 17)
Mojave Desert Tests Prepare for NASA Mars Roving
Engineers ran rover-mobility tests on California sand dunes this week in preparation for operating NASA's Curiosity rover after it lands in Mars' Gale Crater.
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(May 11)
NASA Data Shed New Light About Water and Volcanoes on Mars
Data from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest liquid water has interacted with the Martian surface throughout the planet's history and into modern times.
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(September 09)
Missing Piece Inspires New Look at Mars Puzzle
Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life.
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(September 03)
Phoenix Mars Lander is Silent, New Image Shows Damage
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ended operations after repeated, unsuccessful attempts to contact the lander, and a new orbiter image shows signs of ice damage to Phoenix.
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(May 24)
Final Attempts to Hear from Mars Phoenix Scheduled
From May 17 to 21, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will conduct a fourth and final campaign to check on whether the Phoenix Mars Lander has come back to life.
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(May 13)
No Peep from Phoenix in Third Odyssey Listening Stint
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter heard no signal from the Phoenix Mars Lander when it listened from orbit while passing over Phoenix 60 times last week.
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(April 13)
Third Listening Period to Begin Monday, April 5
From April 5 through April 9, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will conduct a third campaign to check whether the Phoenix Mars Lander has come back to life after experiencing a Martian arctic winter it was not designed to survive.
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(April 02)
January Listening Period Ends with No Word from Phoenix Mars Lander
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has completed all 30 relay overflights of the Phoenix landing site that were scheduled for Jan. 18 to 21, and heard nothing from the lander.
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(January 21)
NASA Orbiter Listening for Phoenix Lander Hears Nothing
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has completed 11 overflights, listening for the Phoenix Mars Lander on Jan. 19 and 20, without hearing anything from the lander.
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(January 20)
NASA to Check for Unlikely Winter Survival of Mars Lander
Beginning Jan. 18, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will listen for possible, though improbable, radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars Lander, which completed five months of studying an arctic Martian site in November 2008.
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(January 11)
Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images
Winter images of NASA's Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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(November 04)
NASA Phoenix Results Point to Martian Climate Cycles
Favorable chemistry and episodes with thin films of liquid water during ongoing, long-term climate cycles may sometimes make the area where NASA's Phoenix Mars mission landed last year a favorable environment for microbes.
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(July 02)
Award to Recognize Phoenix Mars Lander Team
The team that developed and operated NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission will receive the 2009 John L. "Jack" Swigert Award for Space Exploration from the Space Foundation.
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(February 19)
NASA Receives Shorty Twitter Award
NASA's activities in social networking media will be recognized Wednesday in New York, when the agency receives an award for its presence on the popular Web site Twitter.
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(February 10)
Antarctic Expedition Prepared Researchers for Mars Project
About half a year before Phoenix began digging into the arctic plain of Mars, six scientists traveled to one of the coldest, driest places on Earth for soil-and-ice studies that would end up aiding analysis of the Mars data.
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(February 05)
A Change of Seasons on Mars
This image, taken on December 21, shows the Phoenix Mars Lander during the last waning days of northern hemisphere summer. This is the first image targeted to the lander since it ceased activity.
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(January 02)
Phoenix Site on Mars May be in Dry Climate Cycle Phase
The Martian arctic soil that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander dug into this year is very cold and very dry.
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(December 15)
NASA Finishes Listening for Phoenix Mars Lander
After nearly a month of daily checks to determine whether Martian NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander would be able to communicate again, the agency has stopped using its Mars orbiters to hail the lander and listen for its beep.
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(December 01)
Phoenix Mars Lander Team Wins Innovation Award
The University of Arizona has received an Arizona Governor's Innovator of the Year Award for leading NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission.
+ Univ. of Arizona release
(November 19)
NASA Mars Lander Receives Award From Magazine
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has won recognition from Popular Science magazine as an innovation worthy of the publication's "Best of What's New" Grand Award in the aviation and space category.
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(November 13)
Mars Phoenix Lander Finishes Successful Work on Red Planet
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ceased communications after operating for more than five months.
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(November 10)
NASA Hearing Daily From Weak Phoenix Mars Lander (Nov. 3)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has communicated with controllers daily since Oct. 30 through relays to Mars orbiters.
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(November 03)
Phoenix Mission Status Report
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander communicated with an orbiter Thursday. Engineers continue assessing the lander's status and steps needed for returning to science activities.
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(October 30)
Phoenix Mission Status Report
NASA'S Phoenix Mars Lander entered safe mode late yesterday in response to a low-power fault brought on by deteriorating weather conditions.
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(October 29)
NASA's Phoenix Mission Faces Survival Challenges
In a race against time and the elements, engineers with NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission hope to extend the lander's survival by gradually shutting down some of its instruments and heaters, starting today.
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(October 28)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Team Wins National Space Club Award
The National Space Club presented NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission team with its Astronautics Engineer Award last night in Huntsville, Ala.
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(October 23)
Phoenix Lander Finishes Soil Delivery to Onboard Labs
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has finished scooping soil samples to deliver to its onboard laboratories, and is now preparing to analyze samples already obtained.
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(October 21)
Phoenix Gets Bonus Soil Sample
The Mars Phoenix Lander's robotic arm successfully delivered soil into oven six of the lander's thermal and evolved-gas analyzer (TEGA) on Monday, Oct. 13, or Martian day (sol) 137 of the mission.
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(October 17)
Phoenix Braves Dust and Winds
High winds and dust devils blew through Phoenix's landing site last weekend. These two short videos show them in action.
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(October 15)
Phoenix Mars Mission Honored by Popular Mechanics
Three members of the Phoenix team were recognized for leading the successful mission to Mars: Barry Goldstein, the Phoenix project manager from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Peter Smith, the principal investigator from the University of Arizona, Tuscon; and Ed Sedivy, the Phoenix program manager at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver.
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(October 15)
Phoenix Weathers Dust Storm
The Phoenix Lander over the weekend successfully weathered a regional dust storm that temporarily lowered its solar power, and the team is back investigating the Red Planet's northern plains.
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(October 14)
Phoenix Digs Mars
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has been digging and excavating Martian soil with its nearly 8-foot-long robotic arm. New images, like this one in 3D, show the trenchwork taken on Oct. 7.
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(October 10)
Phoenix Lander Digs and Analyzes Soil as Darkness Gathers
As fall approaches Mars' northern plains, NASA's Phoenix Lander is busy digging into the Red Planet's soil and scooping it into its onboard science laboratories for analysis.
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(October 08)
NASA Mars Lander Sees Falling Snow, Soil Data Suggest Liquid Past
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds.
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(September 29)
Mars Lander Moves Rock to Study What's Beneath
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander slid a rock into a nearby trench Monday to gain access to the soil under the rock.
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(September 23)
NASA's Phoenix Lander Might Peek Under a Rock
If the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander can nudge a rock aside today, scientists on the Phoenix team would like to see what's underneath.
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(September 22)
Morning Frost in Martian Trench
A Sept. 18 false-color image from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows morning frost and subsurface ice in a trench where the lander was working.
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(September 19)
Phoenix Images Discarded Heat Shield
A new color high-resolution image from the Phoenix Mars Lander shows its crumpled heat shield about 150 meters away from the spacecraft.
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(September 17)
More Soil Delivered to Phoenix Lab
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has successfully delivered more soil to its Wet Chemistry Laboratory.
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(September 16)
NASA's Phoenix Lander Sees, Feels Martian Whirlwinds in Action
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has photographed several dust devils dancing across the arctic plain this week and sensed a dip in air pressure as one passed near the lander.
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(September 11)
Next Mars Soil Scoop Slated for Last of Lander's Wet Lab Cells
The next soil sample that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will deliver to its deck instruments will go to the fourth of the four cells of Phoenix's wet chemistry laboratory, according to the Phoenix team's current plans.
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(September 09)
Phoenix Monitors Frosty Clumps on its Struts
The latest look underneath NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows growth of clumps that are adhering to a leg strut.
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(September 08)
Spiky Probe on NASA Mars Lander Raises Vapor Quandary
A fork-like conductivity probe has sensed humidity rising and falling beside Phoenix, but when stuck into the ground, its measurements so far indicate soil that is thoroughly and perplexingly dry.
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(September 04)
Analysis Begins on Deepest Soil Sample
Scientists have begun to analyze a sample of soil delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's wet chemistry experiment from the deepest trench dug so far in the Martian arctic plains.
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(September 01)
NASA Phoenix Mission Conducting Extended Activities on Mars
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, having completed its 90-day primary mission, is continuing its science collection activities.
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(August 29)
Digs Deeper As Third Month Nears End
The next sample of Martian soil being grabbed for analysis is coming from a trench about three times deeper than any other trench NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has dug.
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(August 25)
Mid-Depth Soil Collected for Lab Test On NASA's Mars Lander
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up a soil sample from an intermediate depth between the ground surface and a subsurface icy layer.
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(August 21)
Phoenix Mars Lander Explores Site by Trenching
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scientists and engineers are continuing to dig into the area around the lander with the spacecraft's robotic arm, looking for new materials to analyze and examining the soil and ice subsurface structure.
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(August 20)
Phoenix Microscope Takes First Image of Martian Dust Particle
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope.
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(August 14)
Soil Studies Continue at Site of Phoenix Mars Lander
Vibration of the screen above a laboratory oven on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander on Saturday got enough soil into the oven begin analysis of the sample.
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(August 09)
Phoenix Mars Team Opens Window on Scientific Process
Mission scientists today discussed their current investigation into percholate salts detected in Martian soil. The salts are neither good nor bad for life, said one scientist, but do make us reassess how we think about life on Mars.
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(August 05)
NASA Spacecraft Analyzing Martian Soil Data
Scientists are analyzing results from soil samples delivered several weeks ago to science instruments on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to understand the landing site's soil chemistry and mineralogy.
+ View release
(August 04)
NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended
Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample.
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(July 31)
Close-Up Images of 'Snow Queen' Show Changes
A distinctive hard-surface feature called "Snow Queen" beneath NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander visibly changed sometime between mid-June and mid-July, close-up images from the Robotic Arm Camera show.
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(July 29)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Working With Sticky Soil
Scientists and engineers on NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission spent the weekend examining how the icy soil on Mars interacts with the scoop on the lander's robotic arm, while trying different techniques to deliver a sample to one of the instruments.
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(July 28)
Phoenix Revises Method to Deliver Icy Sample
Phoenix's robotic arm will use a revised collection-and-delivery sequence overnight Sunday with the goal of depositing an icy soil sample in the lander's oven.
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(July 27)
Lander Collects Icy Soil But Needs to Work on Delivery
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm collected a more than adequate amount of icy soil for baking in one of the lander's ovens but will need to adjust how it delivers samples.
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(July 26)
Phoenix Scoop Ready for Sampling
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm scoop is primed and ready to collect a soil sample from the northern region of Mars to analyze for the presence of water and other possible ingredients.
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(July 25)
Trench on Mars Ready for Next Sampling by NASA Lander
Phoenix Mars Lander has groomed the bottom of a shallow trench to prepare for collecting a sample to be analyzed from a hard subsurface layer where the soil may contain frozen water.
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(July 24)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Prepares for Next Sample Analysis
The latest activities of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have moved the mission closer to analyzing a sample of material, possibly icy soil, from a hard layer at the bottom of a shallow trench beside the lander.
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(July 23)
Phoenix Completes Longest Work Shift
Phoenix early Tuesday finished its longest work shift of the mission.
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(July 22)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Works Through the Night
To coordinate with observations made by an orbiter flying repeatedly overhead, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is working a schedule Monday that includes staying awake all night for the first time.
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(July 21)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests with Rasp
The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to tell the lander today to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground.
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(July 18)
3-D Views Posted From NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander
NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander.
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(July 17)
Phoenix Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects Sample
A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully drilled into the frozen soil and loosened material that was collected in the lander's scoop.
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(July 16)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to Begin Rasping Frozen Layer
A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is being tested for the first time on Mars in gathering sample shavings of ice.
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(July 15)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Extending Trench
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is using its Robotic Arm to enlarge an exposure of hard subsurface material expected to yield a sample of ice-rich soil for analysis in one of the lander's ovens.
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(July 14)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Uses Soil Probe and Swiss Scope
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has touched Martian soil with a fork-like probe for the first time and begun using a microscope that examines shapes of tiny particles by touching them.
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(July 10)
Sample-Collection Tests by NASA's Phoenix Lander Continue
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's science and engineering teams are testing methods to get an icy sample into the Robotic Arm scoop for delivery to the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA).
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(July 08)
NASA's Phoenix Lander Delivers Soil-Chemistry Sample
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander used its Robotic Arm to deliver a second sample of soil for analysis by the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory, data received from Phoenix on Sunday night confirmed.
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(July 07)
Phoenix to Bake Ice-Rich Sample Next Week
The next sample delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer will be ice-rich.
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(July 02)
Phoenix Scrapes 'Almost Perfect' Icy Soil for Analysis
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander enlarged the "Snow White" trench and scraped up little piles of icy soil on Saturday, June 28, the 33rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
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(July 01)
Phoenix Scrapes to Icy Soil in Wonderland
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scraped to icy soil in the "Wonderland" area on Thursday, June 26, confirming that surface soil, subsurface soil and icy soil can be sampled at a single trench.
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(June 27)
Phoenix Returns Treasure Trove for Science
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander performed its first wet chemistry experiment on Martian soil flawlessly yesterday, returning a wealth of data that for Phoenix scientists was like winning the lottery.
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(June 26)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Puts Soil in Chemistry Lab, Team Discusses Next Steps
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander placed a sample of Martian soil in the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory today for the first time.
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(June 25)
Phoenix Poised to Deliver Sample for Wet Chemistry
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander repositioned its robotic arm slightly today and is now poised to deliver Martian soil to its wet chemistry laboratory.
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(June 24)
Phoenix Lander Prepares for Microscopy, Wet Chemistry on Mars
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has delivered a scoop of Martian soil from the "Snow White" trenches to the optical microscope for analysis tomorrow, June 24, the 29th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 29.
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(June 23)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Delivers Soil Sample to Microscope
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Saturday beamed back images showing that Phoenix's Robotic Arm successfully sprinkled soil onto the delivery port of the lander's Optical Microscope.
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(June 21)
NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Confirms Frozen Water
Scientists relishing confirmation of water ice near the surface beside NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander anticipate even bigger discoveries from the robotic mission in the weeks ahead.
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(June 20)
Bright Chunks at Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice
Dice-size crumbs of bright material have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander four days ago, convincing scientists that the material was frozen water that vaporized after digging exposed it.
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(June 19)
NASA Mars Lander to Dig; Team Probes Flash Memory
NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission generated an unusually high volume of spacecraft housekeeping data on Tuesday causing the loss of some non-critical science data.
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(June 18)
Phoenix Makes First Trench in Science Preserve
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander began digging in an area called "Wonderland" early Tuesday, taking its first scoop of soil from a polygonal surface feature within the "national park" region that mission scientists have been preserving for science.
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(June 17)
NASA Phoenix Lander Bakes Sample, Arm Digs Deeper
One of the ovens on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander continued baking its first sample of Martian soil over the weekend, while the Robotic Arm dug deeper into the soil to learn more about white material first revealed on June 3.
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(June 16)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Inspects Delivered Soil Samples
New observations from Phoenix provide the most magnified view ever seen of Martian soil, showing particles clumping together even at the smallest visible scale.
+ View release
(June 13)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Delivers Soil Sample to Microscope
Phoenix sprinkled a spoonful of Martian soil Wednesday onto the sample wheel of the spacecraft's robotic microscope station, images received early Thursday confirmed.
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(June 12)
NASA's Phoenix Lander Has An Oven Full Of Martian Soil
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has filled its first oven with Martian soil.
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(June 11)
NASA Lander Will Sprinkle Martian Soil for Microscope to View
The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to instruct the spacecraft in the next few days to use its Robotic Arm to sprinkle a spoonful of Martian soil onto a wheel that will rotate the sample into place for viewing by the spacecraft's Optical Microscope.
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(June 10)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Testing Sprinkle Technique
Engineers are testing a revised method for delivering soil samples to laboratory instruments on Phoenix's deck now that researchers appreciate how clumpy the soil is at the landing site.
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(June 09)
Phoenix Sifts for Samples, Continues Imaging Landing Site
On Sunday, mechanical shakers inside the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer on Phoenix will attempt to loosen clumped soils on the device's screens to allow material to fall into the oven for analysis later in the week.
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(June 08)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Checking Soil Properties
The arm of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander released a handful of clumpy Martian soil onto a screened opening of a laboratory instrument on the spacecraft Friday, but the instrument did not confirm that any of the sample passed through the screen.
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(June 07)
NASA Mars Lander Scoops First Soil Sample for Laboratory Analysis
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander made its first dig into Martian soil for science studies and is poised to deliver the scoopful to a laboratory instrument on the lander deck.
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(June 06)
Highest Resolution View Ever From Mars Comes From NASA Lander
A microscope on NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander has taken images of dust and sand particles with the greatest resolution ever returned from another planet.
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(June 05)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Ready to Gather Samples
Two practice rounds of digging and dumping the clumpy soil at the Martian arctic site this week gave scientists and engineers gathered at the University of Arizona confidence to begin using Phoenix's Robotic Arm to deliver soil samples to instruments on the lander deck.
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(June 04)
NASA's Phoenix Retesting Release of Martian Soil
Engineers and scientists operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander decided early today to repeat a practice test of releasing Martian soil from the scoop on the lander's Robotic Arm.
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(June 03)
NASA's Phoenix Scoops Up Martian Soil
One week after landing on far-northern Mars, NASA Phoenix spacecraft lifted its first scoop of Martian soil as a test of the lander's Robotic Arm.
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(June 02)
NASA's Phoenix Lander Makes an Impression on Mars
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander reached out and touched the Martian soil for the first time on Saturday, May 31, the first step in a series of actions expected to bring soil and ice to the lander's experiments.
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(June 01)
Camera on Arm Looks Beneath NASA Mars Lander
A view of the ground underneath NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander adds to evidence that descent thrusters dispersed overlying soil and exposed a harder substrate that may be ice.
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(May 31)
NASA'S Phoenix Lander Robotic Arm Camera Sees Possible Ice
TUCSON, Ariz.-- Scientists have discovered what may be ice that was exposed when soil was blown away as NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars last Sunday, May 25.
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(May 30)
NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Puts Arm and Other Tools to Work
NASA's Mars lander is returning more detailed images from the Martian surface and is now preparing its instruments for science operations.
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(May 29)
NASA's Phoenix Spacecraft Commanded to Unstow Arm
Scientists leading NASA's Phoenix Mars mission from the University of Arizona in Tucson sent commands to unstow its robotic arm and take more images of its landing site early today.
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(May 28)
Orbiter Relays Second-Day Information From NASA Mars Lander
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully received information from the Phoenix Mars Lander Tuesday evening and relayed the information to Earth.
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(May 27)
NASA Mars Lander Prepares to Move Arm
NASA's Phoenix Lander is ready to begin moving its robotic arm, first unlatching its wrist and then flexing its elbow.
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(May 27)
Camera on Mars Orbiter Snaps Phoenix During Landing
A telescopic camera in orbit around Mars caught a view of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suspended from its parachute during the lander's successful arrival at Mars Sunday evening, May 25.
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(May 26)
NASA's Phoenix Spacecraft Reports Good Health After Mars Landing
A NASA spacecraft today sent pictures showing itself in good condition after making the first successful landing in a polar region of Mars.
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(May 25)
NASA's Phoenix Spacecraft Lands at Martian Arctic Site
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars today to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic arm.
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(May 25)
Mars Pulls Phoenix in
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander sped on Sunday morning toward its arrival at Mars, as the tug of the Red Planet's gravity accelerated the craft during the final day of its trip from Earth to Mars.
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(May 25)
No Final Nudge Needed for Phoenix
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will reach Mars this evening with no further adjustments to its flight path.
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(May 25)
Phoenix Lander Update: No Saturday Night Maneuver
Mission controllers for NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander decided Saturday afternoon, May 24, to forgo the second-to-last opportunity for adjusting the spacecraft's flight path.
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(May 24)
Phoenix Preview: Guided Tour of Mars Landing
Catch this guided tour with Rob Manning, chief engineer for JPL's Mars Program, as he describes a simulation of the Mars Phoenix landing, scheduled for Sunday, May 25.
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(May 23)
Phoenix Spacecraft on Course for May 25 Mars Landing
With three days and 3 million miles left to fly before arriving at Mars, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is on track for its destination in the Martian arctic.
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(May 22)
Follow Events on Phoenix Mars Landing Blog
Phoenix mission members are now updating our blog as landing day approaches. We will be blogging from JPL's mission control on Sunday, May 25, as the spacecraft touches down on Mars.
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(May 19)
Mars Phoenix on Facebook and Twitter
JPL has a page on social-networking site Facebook and is also using micro-blogging site Twitter.
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(May 19)
Destination Mars: Entry, Descent and Landing
It will be a real nail-biter on May 25, 2008, for engineers, as the Phoenix spacecraft performs a series of challenging maneuvers right before it lands on Mars.
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(May 16)
Closing in on Mars: Course Slightly Adjusted
Phoenix successfully performed a maneuver on May 17 to adjust its course slightly toward the center of the approved landing area.
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(May 19)
NASA Briefings and TV Coverage Schedule for Phoenix Mars Landing
NASA news briefings, live commentary and updates before and after the scheduled Sunday, May 25 arrival of the agency's Phoenix Mars Lander will be available on NASA Television and on the Web.
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(May 16)
Phoenix Landing Events Schedule
This is a list of events during and around the Phoenix landing on Mars.
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(May 14)
NASA Phoenix Mission Ready For Mars Landing
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is preparing to end its long journey and begin a three-month mission to taste and sniff fistfuls of Martian soil and buried ice.
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(May 13)
Phoenix Flying True Enough to Skip One Scheduled Adjustment
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander continues on course for its May 25 arrival at Mars.
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(May 09)
Intense Testing Paved Phoenix Road to Mars
When NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander descends to the surface of the Red Planet on May 25, few will be watching as closely as those who have spent years planning, analyzing and conducting tests to prepare for the dramatic and nerve-wracking event.
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(May 09)
Mars Orbiter Eyes Dust Devils at Phoenix Landing Site
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured an image of dust devils -- swirling dust storms -- near the landing site for the Mars Phoenix lander on the northern Martian plains.
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(May 06)
NASA Spacecraft Fine Tunes Course for Mars Landing
NASA engineers have adjusted the flight path of the Phoenix Mars Lander, setting the spacecraft on course for its May 25 landing on the Red Planet.
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(April 10)
Spacecraft at Mars Prepare to Welcome New Kid on the Block
Three Mars spacecraft are adjusting their orbits to be over the right place at the right time to listen to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander as it enters the Martian atmosphere on May 25.
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(February 28)
Phoenix:Tasks En Route to Mars Include Course Tweak, Gear Checks
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, launched on Aug. 4 and headed to Mars, fired its four trajectory correction thrusters Wednesday for only the second time.
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(October 30)
Mars-Bound Phoenix Returns First Photo from Trip
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft, launched Aug. 4, is testing its hardware and software as it flies to Mars. A camera mounted on the craft's robotic arm took this test photo showing the scoop at the end of the arm, verifying that the camera works.
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(September 07)
Phoenix Mars Lander Status Report: Radar and Other Gear Pass Checkouts
Two crucial tools for a successful landing of America's latest mission to Mars, the radar and UHF radio on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, have passed in-flight checkouts.
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(September 04)
NASA's Mars-Bound Phoenix Adjusts Course Successfully
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander today accomplished the first and largest of six course corrections planned during the spacecraft's flight from Earth to Mars.
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(August 10)
NASA Spacecraft Heads for Polar Region of Mars
NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission blasted off Saturday, aiming for a May 25, 2008, arrival at the Red Planet and a close-up examination of the surface of the northern polar region.
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(August 04)
Next Departure for Mars Stands Ready to Fly
A NASA robotic explorer equipped to dig up and analyze icy soil on Mars sits atop a 13-story tall stack of rocket engines prepared for liftoff before sunup on Saturday.
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(August 02)
NASA Postpones Phoenix Launch
Friday's launch of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has been postponed 24 hours.
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(July 31)
NASA Readies Mars Lander for August Launch to Icy Site
NASA's next Mars mission will look beneath a frigid arctic landscape for conditions favorable to past or present life.
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(July 09)
NASA's Next Mars Spacecraft Crosses the Mississippi
A U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo aircraft carried NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft Monday, May 7, from Colorado to Florida, where Phoenix will start a much longer trip in August.
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(May 08)
Act Soon to Send Your Name to Mars
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will carry a DVD with names of people from around the world. About 200,000 names have been enrolled so far, and the deadline to get your name on board is Feb. 12. Phoenix will launch in August 2007 and reach Mars in May 2008.
+ Sign up to send your name
(February 05)
Pieces of NASA's Next Mars Mission are Coming Together
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, the next mission to the surface of Mars, is beginning a new phase in preparation for a launch in August 2007.
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(April 26)
NASA has given the green light to a project to put a long-armed lander onto the icy ground of the far-northern martian plains.
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ALFRED, Maine — Sociology informs that "perspective is everything," and the January 2013 Gary Sullivan Memorial Winter Lectures will deftly illustrate that very idea as three well-known writers present topical and interesting facets of their interests.
Following a 9 a.m. coffee and muffin welcome, editorial writers, Conservative M.D. Harmon and Liberal Greg Kesich, will present their divergent views as "Monday morning quarterbacks" following our November elections. And, given increasing technology related to news distribution, they will "up their periscopes" to analyze the future of print news. How endangered a species is it?
Michael D. Harmon is a freelance writer and speaker. He worked for the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram in a variety of positions, including city editor, assistant managing editor, editorial writer and weekly columnist, for 41 years, retiring in 2011. He is also an ordained deacon and serves at the Church of the Prince of Peace in Sanford. An Army veteran of Vietnam, he has been the worthy recipient of several awards. He retired from the Army Reserve in Maine in 1994 with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He is married and lives in Sanford with his wife, Margaret. Together they have five children and six grandchildren.
Greg Kesich is the editorial page editor of the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. Before joining the editorial department in 2008, he was a reporter with the newspapers, covering at different times legal affairs, the state house, and western York County from the Sanford bureau. Kesich is vice-president of the Portland Newspaper Guild, the labor union representing most employees at the newspapers, and a member of the Maine Today Media board of directors. He lives in Portland with his wife Gail Donovan, a children's book author. They have two teenage daughters.
The Harmon-Kesich presentation, "A Post-election Analysis and Discussion of the Future of Print News," will launch the new year series at 9:30 a.m., Jan. 16.
A delicious luncheon of soup, salad, sandwiches, dessert and beverage will punctuate the day and provide occasion for more fellowship.
That afternoon at 12:30, Kate Braestrup, a community minister, chaplain, and the author of The New York Times bestselling memoir, Here If You Need Me, will speak about her chaplaincy with the Maine Warden Service under the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. This is the organization that is responsible for lost kids and careless hikers, or gets help for injured people in/on State facilities like Moosehead or Katahdin, etc. Kate waits with the anxious families or makes contacts when the news is bad. Her husband, Trooper Drew Griffith, was killed in a car accident while on duty in 1996. Kate Braestrup was left a widowed mother of four children between the ages of 3 and 9. Her deeply-poignant perspective enhances her vast and sometimes unbelievable experiences, and in person she is distinctly moving and eloquent. With poise and grace, she brings to life the truths and complexities of her sensitive assignment. Kate Baestrup has also authored Marriage and Other Acts of Charity and Beginner's Grace: Bringing Prayer to Life.
All winter lectures will be given at Denis Hall on the campus of the Brothers of Christian Instruction, 133 Shaker Hill Road, Alfred (off route 202). The fee for each day's program is $15, payable at the door, and includes morning brunch, a delicious lunch, coffee breaks, a treasure of information, and a memorable day. These lectures are open to the public; membership in Senior College is not required.
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Are you a Newly-Qualified Pharmacist looking for your first role in Pharmacy? Or you're an experienced Pharmacist looking for something different?
Here at Well, we aim to build the best prescription experience in the UK. Sounds ambitious, right? But that's okay, because we've got a fantastic team of talented, creative and forward-thinking people, that are key in helping us get there.
Our Pharmacists are inspiring clinical leaders, going above and beyond when providing healthcare advice in the heart of the community. We're looking for passionate and enthusiastic Pharmacists who can bring leadership and a commercial edge to their pharmacy, inspiring every member of the team to deliver expert clinical advice, services and exceed targets with the support of a Store Manager.
It's an exciting period of transformation here at Well, in a rapidly changing healthcare industry. The future will require change and, importantly, your support to deliver it. Our customers sit of the heart of the reasoning behind this change.
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Most mayors are, for the most part, Manhattan mayors. The bulk of the city's visibility is in Manhattan. More people visit Manhattan. Major events happen in Manhattan. But all parts of the city matter.
The people of Rockaway are not snow birds or vacationers. They live there full time, and many of them are not back home. The same is true for Staten Island.
Having returned from Seaside Heights this weekend, it was obvious that many of those homes are not rebuilt a year after the storm. There is still a lot of construction. There are red tags on homes that cannot be lived in right now.
Roads, a year later, still detour cars to alternative routes. A used car or boat motor for sale may just be something that spent some time underwater. The storm was more than these communities were prepared to deal with. Rockaway is not back, and neither is Staten Island. The question is what will next year look like?
This is the reason we have a government. Waiting for the private sector to rescue and rebuild will not do it. Whether you are a small government conservative or a big government progressive, these are the unique circumstances where government can move the ball downfield and call for rapid re-building.
What will these new pols brings us in the next year? That is what we should be keeping a watchful eye on in the next few months. Without sounding like Rahm Emanuel, these difficult times are also a chance for people to show how effective they can be in providing for their constituents.
Remember how former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca was considered presidential timber shortly after restoring the Statue of Liberty (and his company)? Iacocca got some help from the government, but he also was able to turn things around. Doing right by the people comes with its own rewards, and sometimes even a little more.
Big Cities and The Lost Art of Making Things
Recently, a study of the census indicated that in over 50 American cities 25 percent of the population is at or below the poverty level. Many of those people are under the age of 18.
Politicians can utilize all kinds of innovative techniques to address poverty in both cities and rural areas, but as long as we do not have manufacturing bases in these areas, we are only delaying the problem. Without a middle class, there is higher crime, less education, and less hope.
Not all students are headed to law school. Not all of them are headed to college either. While education is important, there is no infrastructure for those who are not cut out for academics, and that is a tragic loss.
Last week, the federal government agreed to help Detroit to the tune of $300 million. Cities need to restructure labor contracts where needed and bring manufacturing back to some degree.
We will not be at the levels of production that we were at before other economies like China and India developed, but we can still climb back. Retraining our workforce is the only way to dig out from these ugly statistics.


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this is me and my blog. I am a baker who is trying to succeed at…life. if you have any questions, leave a comment. :o)
for my work history, please click here.
I am a baker in San Francisco, CA. I moved to San Francisco about 5 years ago…
…right after graduating from The Culinary Institute of America. I would like to open my own bakery in the future.
first day of school…circa 1992-ish
A food-based questionnaire I filled out a few years ago: (some answers might have changed over time; not all answers have been updated)
What's your favorite kitchen gadget? How about your favorite kitchen appliance?
I like simple things, like my spatula for mixing and the small spatula that I use for removing things from the pan, such as cookies from a cookie sheet. I like the hand mixer from my grandmother, because it is not as powerful as the modern versions, I am able to control the mixing better.
Are you known for making a certain dish or dessert? If so, what is it?
I am known for making Better Than Brownies Cookies
What is the ultimate comfort food to you?
Macaroni and cheese, made from scratch, not from the box!
Which season (Winter, Summer, Spring, Fall) is your favorite.. why?
I like warm weather, and flowers, so spring/summer.
Other than cooking and/or baking.. what hobbies do you enjoy?
rock climbing (a newer favorite), watching movies, reading, learning (sounds boring, but it's so not!)
How long have you been blogging? Do you like it? What's your favorite post you've written?
I've been blogging for quite awhile, since I used to blog as a journal when I was in high school and a freshman at college, but I've only recently been blogging about baking/desserts. I like sharing my ideas with other people. I don't really have a favorite post.
What's your favorite cookbook for desserts/baking? What's your favorite cookbook for savory/cooking?
I am really into Field Guide To Cookies right now, along with Baking, The Joy the Baker cookbook, and all of these lovely blogs!
Is there one food that you seriously dislike/hate? If so, which is it and why?
I am not a big fruit fan. I was never pushed to really try it as a kid, and I am growing fonder of certain fruit.
What's your favorite flower and/or plant?
Who taught you how to cook and/or bake?
My mother, and I went to pastry school.
What's your favorite holiday and why?
Thanksgiving, and any holiday about food harvesting. It seems to be what brings the family together the most.
Do you have a food addiction?
What kind of colors do you like? Pastels? Earth tones? Brights? Neons? Etc.
Bright colors; purple is my favorite color.
If you had the choice of a free kitchen, bathroom, living room or bedroom makeover – which would you choose and why?
I think kitchen, though, this is of course assuming that I own my house…
The Martha – Angel of Domestication or Minion of Evil? Why?
somewhere in-between.
Do you watch any competitive cooking shows? Like Top Chef or Hell's Kitchen? If so, which is your favorite and why?
I like watching Top Chef.
What's your favorite "sweet" spice? How about your favorite "savory" spice?
I like vanilla and cinnamon.
What's your favorite herb to cook or bake with? Do you prefer fresh or dried?
I like rosemary, and basil, either dried or fresh is fine.
Do you have a time saving kitchen tip you'd like to share with us?
Clean as you go, it helps de-clutter your brain as well as the space.


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Here's an interesting story from Friday regarding sales at Walmart that just came my way: Wal-Mart Executives Sweat Slow February Start in E-Mails.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. had the worst sales start to a month in seven years as payroll-tax increases hit shoppers already battling a slow economy, according to internal e-mails obtained by Bloomberg News.
"In case you haven't seen a sales report these days, February MTD sales are a total disaster," Jerry Murray, Wal-Mart's vice president of finance and logistics, said in a Feb. 12 e-mail to other executives, referring to month-to-date sales. "The worst start to a month I have seen in my ~7 years with the company"
Murray's comments about February sales follow disappointing results from January, a month that Cameron Geiger, senior vice president of Wal-Mart U.S. Replenishment, said he was relieved to see end, according to a separate internal e-mail obtained by Bloomberg News.
"Have you ever had one of those weeks where your best-prepared plans weren't good enough to accomplish everything you set out to do?" Geiger asked in a Feb. 1 e-mail to executives. "Well, we just had one of those weeks here at Walmart U.S. Where are all the customers? And where's their money?"
Murray declined to comment and Geiger didn't return telephone and e-mail messages seeking comment.
Both executives attributed the performance to increased payroll taxes and delayed tax returns, which Geiger called "a potent one-two punch," according to the e-mails.
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Gov. Jan Brewer said Tuesday the federal government and parents of young illegal immigrants are at fault as she defended her order denying driver's licenses and other public benefits to those who get work authorizations under a new Obama administration policy.
Brewer said she doesn't hate Hispanics or immigrants but that she's reaffirming the intent of state laws denying public benefits to illegal immigrants.
"I think everybody in Arizona (and) across the country has compassion for those children that have been brought here illegally by their parents," Brewer said. "But it is not our responsibility. It is their parents' responsibility. They need to follow the law."
Brewer's order denying benefits for people who qualify for the deferred deportation policy was criticized by advocates as cold-hearted, misguided and legally questionable.
But it was not surprising in the wake of the Republican governor's battles with President Barack Obama's administration over the state's 2010 immigration enforcement law and related issues.
Brewer reiterated her call for tighter border security. Once the border is secure, Washington can then tackle other immigration-related concerns, she said.
"It's an unfortunate situation, but certainly something that needs to be addressed, and I believe it's the federal government that needs to address that, and they need to do it by changing the law, and they need to work through the Congress and do what they need to do in order to rectify what has taken place," Brewer said.
The federal government said in July that apprehensions for immigration violations had dropped to the lowest level in 40 years, reflecting a decline in illegal immigrants' northbound travel from Mexico. Likely reasons include the economy and increased U.S. enforcement.
Brewer said her order was intended to make sure that state agencies adhere to the intent of state laws denying public benefits to illegal immigrants.
But she also said she's against changing those state laws to allow public benefits for people qualifying for deferred deportation.
"No, I believe people ought to be here legally and they ought to be here with a lawful presence," she said.
Brewer spoke with reporters after casting an early ballot for the state's primary election next week.
At a courthouse several blocks away, a federal judge heard arguments on a request by opponents of the 2010 law to block implementation of its most contentious section.


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The main driver of demographic growth in Switzerland over the last few decades has been migration.
Switzerland evolved over many centuries from a loose alliance of small self-governing towns and states to a fully-fledged federal state of 26 cantons.
Federalism and direct democracy reflect the great importance that the Swiss political system places on the freedom of choice and self-determination.
Switzerland has one of the most competitive economies in the world thanks above all to its highly developed service sector.
Switzerland is not only one of the world's most innovative research nations, but also one of the most competitive.
Switzerland has three main geographic regions: the Alps covering around 60% of the country's total surface area, the Swiss Plateau (30%) and the Jura (10%).
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Our 3/4 Inch Orange Soft Shackles are made from SK-75 fiber synthetic rope and are approximately 10″ inside diameter and handles up to 30,000 lbs. 3/4″ Orange Soft Shackle are used in many situations instead of a steel shackle and are considered a high strength replacement for most situations requiring the use of a D-Ring or other shackles. These 3/4″ Orange Soft Shackles are perfect for use with Jeeps, Trucks and SUV's.
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- Wrap around a bumper, axle or anything else for a quick pull
- Can be used in place of Anchor Shackles and D-ring shackles in just about any application
**Intended For Off-Road Use Only


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Before turning on the television to watch Game 3 of the NBA Finals last night, I made the mistake of going to ESPN.com to read about the game, and then I compounded that mistake by clicking on this link, which led me to a video clip of Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless screaming about how terrible Russell Westbrook's performance in Game 2 was. It was awful. Smith kept doing that thing where he sighs heavily before he speaks, as if he were the world's most disappointed father who also has a pocket full of Adderall. Bayless said something about Westbrook being "asinine, 10, 11, and 12!" which oh my god what the fuck, Skip Bayless?
As a Russell Westbrook fan, I watched this video and I got all worked up. I was angry. I kept thinking about all the things I would say to refute what these two blowhards were saying. I imagined myself sitting in front of them and totally shutting them down with my superior understanding of the nuances of Westbrook's game. If I could just get in front of those morons. I'd show them.
And then I began to actually worry about Game 3. Oh god, I thought to myself, what if Westbrook has a bad game or bricks a potential game-winner? Then the haters will never shut up and I'll be even angrier! And Jesus Christ, I thought, what if LeBron lays a goose egg tonight? Then I'll have to read 58 more articles and blog posts about what an un-clutch clutchless clownfraud loser he is. My head was full of ridiculous noise, and as Game 3 started a part of me was actually dreading it. Not because I was afraid of one team winning or losing, but because I was afraid that something would happen that would just bring more noise.
And then, late in the game's first quarter, LeBron James did this:
And everything in my head went quiet, and all the worry faded away. LeBron James was doing something gorgeous on my television screen. There he was, exploding into the air a few steps behind the free-throw line, soaring so high that for a moment it looked like he might just reach out and dunk the ball, redefining basketball as we know it. Then he came crashing down to the floor with a heavy gracefulness that only he can carry, sending Nick Collison flying backwards with the shockwave of his hopstep. Immediately he was in the air again, floating right to the lip of the basket, softly laying the ball in with a deft and quiet finger roll.
That moment encapsulated everything that makes LeBron James an incredible basketball player. Over the course of a few seconds, all of his power, speed, and dexterity were on full display, and I was lucky enough to get to watch it. And the best part? There more moments like this to come later in the game.
There was a play in the third quarter when Russell Westbrook decided to channel Rajon Rondo and threw a ridiculous ball fake at the Heat before cruising into the lane for a layup:
It was a wonderful display of improvisation that allowed me to once again imagine what the world would be like if Wesbrook and Rondo were combined to create Russell Rondo (it would be awesome, by the way).
In the fourth quarter, Kevin Durant got in on the action by converting one of the most absurd alley-oops you will ever see:
James Harden's pass was just about as off target as it could possibly be, and yet Durant still found a way to unhinge his body from the annoyances of gravity and physics, reach out with his impossibly long arms, and slam the ball home.
After watching those three plays unfold last night, I couldn't have cared less about whether or not Russell Westbrook was taking "smart" shots, or if LeBron James was being aggressive and playing like a "closer," or if Kevin Durant could learn to stay out of foul trouble. I realized that I was lucky enough to be watching high-stakes basketball, played by some of the most talented and visually stunning players to ever be in the league. That's what this series is really about, basketball being played in its most gorgeous form.
Now, if you're so inclined, there is plenty of noise pertaining to last night's game to fill your head with today. Go ahead and read and listen to all of it if you'd like, but allow me to make another suggestion. Go here and watch some highlight videos. Then watch them again.


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Women working in university science departments report higher levels of job-related burnout than men, suggests new research.
The study points to reasons why women working in science might leave academia and offers ways for universities to better support them.
But a critic of the research's findings said that talent retention was a management issue and that the problem does not lie with the women themselves.
People suffer burnout when they are physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted, making them more likely to leave a position. Although it is known that there is a "leaky pipeline" in science, with women leaving the profession at earlier career stages and at a faster rate than men, until now little consideration has been given to how burnout contributes to this.
Daphne Pedersen, professor of sociology, and Krista Minnottee, assistant professor of sociology, both at the University of North Dakota, surveyed 117 people working in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) departments at a research-intensive liberal arts university in the US.
In an online questionnaire, they asked about the extent to which academics felt burnt out by their job and about various aspects of their work environment.
About 30 per cent of those who responded were women. On average, the women reported higher levels of job burnout than the men. The trend persisted even when the researchers took into account the rank and tenure status of the respondents and whether they were married or had children.
Professor Pedersen told Times Higher Education that feelings of overwork and strain are more likely in STEM departments because faculty face increased pressure to seek external grants and to live up to the expectation of the "ideal worker", who is completely devoted to work and is always available for it.
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Source: Times Higher Education


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The best ways to teach are often both the simplest and the most creative. For example, the Kawasaki Disease Foundation of India (KDFI) has created the "KD Info Cube," a puzzle cube with basic information about Kawasaki Disease, a rare, non-contagious childhood disease that causes inflammation of blood vessels throughout the body. Dr Saji Philip, pediatric cardiologist and secretary general of the foundation, hopes this will provide important health information on this potentially fatal disease.
Do you know of, or use, a non-tech teaching tool for promoting health literacy on a given topic? How successful has it proven to be? Tell us about it!


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Linux Live USB Creator (LiLi) from Windows
The Linux Live USB Creator is an awesome tool that can be used to install various Linux compilations, versions and distributions to a USB Flash Drive. The end result is a Bootable Live USB (in some cases with Persistence as well). Created by Thibaut Lauzière, LiLi USB Creator formerly known as uSbuntu Live Creator, can create your Linux USB Flash Drive from a source Image, ISO or CD. It can also download the IMG or ISO for you. But it doesn't stop there. LiLi USB Creator can also install a Portable Virtualbox on the USB device. You can then either boot the Linux installation from inside Windows emulated using Virtualbox on USB or Boot from USB natively (if your computer supports booting from USB).
Using a Portable VirtualBox to run Linux from USB
Portable VirtualBox was an unofficial Portable Wrapper for VirtualBox, created by Micha. An improved version is currently being offered by Tibo, the author of the LiLi USB Creator. VirtualBox is officially a product of Oracle. It is an emulator or virtual machine that can be used to run various Operating Systems via Disk Images, ISO's and CD/DVD's as a guest OS from within another Host Operating Environment. By using Micha/Tibo's portable wrapper, VirtualBox can be stored and run entirely from a USB device.


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Online Privacy Statement
HP respects your privacy
HP and its subsidiaries respect your privacy. This Privacy Statement informs you of our privacy practices and of the choices you can make about the way your information is collected online and how that information is used. This statement is readily available on our home page and at the bottom of every HP Web page. Some HP Web pages are P3P-enabled, which allows you additional control over your personal information.
HP is a founding sponsor of the Council of Better Business Bureau's BBBOnLine Privacy Program for privacy certification. HP privacy practices meet the requirements of the Privacy Program and we are proud to display the BBBOnLine Privacy Seal.
HP has also self-certified its privacy practices as consistent with U.S.-E.U. Safe Harbor principles: Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Access and Accuracy, Security, and Oversight/Enforcement. More information about the U.S. Department of Commerce Safe Harbor Program can be found at http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/.
1. Sites covered by this Privacy Statement
HP is a global organization, with legal entities, business processes, management structures, and technical systems that cross borders. This Privacy Statement applies to all HP-owned websites and domains and the websites and domains of our wholly owned subsidiaries ("HP website"), except that a privacy policy or statement posted on HP websites specific to a particular HP program or service will apply instead of this Privacy Statement.
Links to non-HP websites
The HP website may provide links to third-party websites for your convenience and information. If you access those links, you will leave the HP website. HP does not control those sites or their privacy practices, which may differ from HP's practices. We do not endorse or make any representations about third-party websites. The personal data you choose to provide to or that is collected by these third parties is not covered by the HP Privacy Statement. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any company before submitting your personal information.
2. Collection of personal information
To serve you better and understand your needs and interests, HP collects, exports, and uses personal information with adequate notice and consent, along with required filings with data protection authorities, when applicable. For example, when you order products or services, apply for instant credit, request information, subscribe to marketing or support materials, register yourself or your HP products, enter contests or participate in surveys, or apply for a job at HP, we will ask you to provide personal information to complete these transactions. The types of personal information you provide to us on these pages may include contact information such as your name, address, telephone number, and email address; financial information such as your credit card number; and other unique information such as user IDs and passwords, billing and transaction information, product and service preferences, contact preferences, educational and employment background, and job interest data. If you apply for instant credit, we will ask you to provide additional sensitive personal information such as salary, Social Security number and banking information. This information will be used by our financial services providers in determining whether to extend you credit.
If you choose to use a tell-a-friend program on our site, we will ask you for your friend's e-mail address and automatically send your friend a one-time e-mail inviting your friend to visit the site. HP uses and stores this information only for the purpose of sending this one-time e-mail and to provide tell-a-friend message blocking, where available.
In addition to the information you provide, HP may also collect information during your visit to an HP website through our Automatic Data Collection Tools, which include Web beacons, cookies, embedded Web links, and other commonly used information-gathering tools. These tools collect certain standard information that your browser sends to our website such as your browser type and language, access times, and the address of the website from which you arrived at an HP website. They may also collect information about your Internet Protocol (IP) address, behavior (i.e. the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions you take in connection with HP websites) and product information. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web, allowing Web servers to locate and identify your computer. Computers use IP addresses to communicate on the Internet, allowing users to browse and shop. HP may also use some of these Automatic Data Collection Tools in connection with certain emails sent from HP and therefore may collect information using these tools when you open the email or click on a link contained in the email. To learn more, read How HP uses automatic data collection tools.
HP also collects information from commercially available sources that it deems credible. Such information may include your name, address, email address and demographic data. The information HP collects from its commercial sources may be used along with the information HP collects when you visit HP's websites. For example, HP may compare the geographic information acquired from commercial sources with the IP address collected by Automatic Data Collection Tools to derive your general geographic area.
3. How we use your informationThe information HP collects to understand your needs and interests helps HP deliver a consistent and personalized experience. For example, HP may use your information to
- assist you in completing a transaction or order;
- communicate with you about products and services;
- provide service and support;
- update you on new services and benefits;
- provide personalized promotional offers;
- select content to be communicated to you;
- personalize some HP websites;
- allow you to participate in contests and surveys; and
- contact you for market research regarding HP products or services.
We will give you the opportunity to choose your privacy preferences regarding the communications we send (see Your choices and selecting your privacy preferences).
The testimonials posted on our Web site are only posted with the expressed permission of the individual or company who provided that testimonial.
Credit card information is used only for payment processing and fraud prevention. Credit card information and other sensitive personal information required to process a credit decision is not used for any other purpose by our financial services providers or HP and will not be kept longer than necessary for providing the services, unless you ask us to retain your credit card information for future purchases.
4. How we share your information
HP will not sell, rent or lease your personal information to others except as described in this Statement. HP shares personal information in the following ways:
HP retains service providers and suppliers to deliver complete products, services and customer solutions and to assist HP with marketing and communication initiatives. These providers and suppliers include, for example, credit card processors, providers of customer support and live-help, email service providers, automated data processors, and shipping agents. Suppliers and service providers are required by contract to keep confidential the information received on behalf of HP and may not use it for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for HP.
From time to time, HP participates in marketing initiatives with other companies. As part of these initiatives, certain HP services and marketing communications are delivered at the same time as those from other companies. Some of these services and communications offer you the option to share personal information with both HP and the other companies participating in these initiatives. For example, you may receive marketing communications from HP and other companies or have the opportunity to register online for software products from multiple companies. If you choose to provide personal information only to HP, HP will not share this information with the other companies participating in that marketing initiative. If you choose to provide personal information to the other companies, that personal information will be handled according to the privacy policy of those companies.
HP will require the export of your personal information to other HP-owned business entities in the US and Worldwide in accordance with this Statement to satisfy your request. Such export is a requirement of providing the information to HP.
Except as described in this Statement, HP will not share the personal information you provide to HP with non-HP third parties without your permission, unless to: (i) respond to duly authorized information requests of police and governmental authorities; (ii) comply with any law, regulation, subpoena, or court order; (iii) help prevent fraud or to enforce or protect the rights and properties of HP or its subsidiaries; or (iv) protect the personal safety of HP employees and third parties on HP property.
Circumstances may arise where, whether for strategic or other business reasons, HP decides to sell, buy, merge or otherwise reorganize businesses in some countries. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal information to prospective or actual purchasers, or the receipt of it from sellers. It is HP's practice to seek appropriate protection for information in these types of transactions.
5. Children's privacyHP does not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13 and does not target its websites to children under 13. We encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children's online activities and interests.
6. Your choices and selecting your privacy preferencesHP gives you the choice of receiving a variety of information that complements our products and services. You can subscribe to receive certain product- and service-specific information and also choose to receive HP general communications. We give you a choice regarding delivery of HP general communications by postal mail, email and telephone.
You can make or change your choices about receiving either subscription or general communications at the data collection point or by using other methods, which are listed in the following sections. This option does not apply to communications primarily for the purpose of administering order completion, contracts, support, product safety warnings, driver updates, or other administrative and transactional notices as the primary purpose of these communications is not promotional in nature.
The email communications that you receive from HP will be provided in accordance with this statement. Some email communications may utilize automatic data collection tools. To learn more, read How HP uses automatic data collection tools.
Subscription communications
Subscription communications include email newsletters, software updates, etc. that may be expressly requested by you or which you consented to receive. After you request such communications, you may opt out of receiving them by using one of the following methods:
- Select the email "opt out" or "unsubscribe" link, or follow the opt-out instructions included in each subscription communication.
- Return to the Web page(s) where you originally registered your preferences and follow the opt-out instructions. Access to many HP subscriptions is available at the Subscriber's Choice web page.
- Write to the HP Privacy Office. Be sure to provide your name, email and postal address, and specific relevant information about the HP subscriptions that you no longer wish to receive.
Please be aware that when you opt out of receiving certain subscription communications, it may affect the services you have chosen to receive from HP where accepting the communications is a condition of receiving the services.
HP general communications
HP general communications provide information about products, services, and/or support. This may include new product information, special offers, or invitations to participate in market research.
You will often be able to use HP Passport to indicate whether you want to receive general communications from HP. HP Passport is a single-login service that lets you register with HP Passport-enabled websites using a single-user identifier and password of your choice. HP Passport uses cookies to store your basic personal information so you don't have to retype it when you return to one of HP's many websites in the future. HP Passport also allows you to set your privacy preferences. Your preferences will apply across HP websites, email, and other communication vehicles that use HP Passport.
If you are unable to use HP Passport, you may opt out of receiving these general communications by using one of the following methods:
- Select the email "opt out" or "unsubscribe" link, or follow the opt-out instructions included in each communication.
- Write to the HP Privacy Office. Be sure to provide your name, email and postal address, and specific relevant information about your privacy preferences.
7. Access to and accuracy of your information
HP strives to keep your personal information accurately recorded. We have implemented technology, management processes and policies to help maintain data accuracy. HP provides individuals with reasonable access to personal information that they provided to HP and the reasonable ability to review and correct it or ask for anonymization, blockage, or deletion, as applicable. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity, such as requiring a password and user ID, before granting access to your data. To view and change the personal information that you directly provided to HP you can return to the Web page where you originally submitted your data and follow the instructions on that Web page, use HP Passport where enabled, or contact the HP Privacy Office.
8. Keeping your personal information secure
HP takes seriously the trust you place in us. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, to maintain data accuracy, and to ensure the appropriate use of the information, HP utilizes appropriate physical, technical and administrative procedures to safeguard the information we collect.
When collecting or transferring sensitive information such as credit card information we use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The personal information you provide us is stored on computer systems located in controlled facilities which have limited access. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as credit card number or password) over the internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Credit card numbers are used only for processing payments and are not used for other purposes. As part of real-time payment processing, HP subscribes to a fraud management service. This service gives you and HP an extra level of security to guard against credit card fraud and to protect your financial data.
9. How HP uses automatic data collection tools
A "cookie" is a small data file transferred by a website to your computer's hard drive. HP or its service providers send cookies when you surf our site or sites where our ads appear, make purchases, request or personalize information, or register yourself for certain services. Accepting the cookies used on our site or sites where our ads appear may give us access to information about your browsing behavior, which we may use to personalize your experience. Cookies are typically classified as either "session" cookies or "persistent" cookies.
- Session cookies do not stay on your computer after you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies remain on your computer until you delete them or they expire. Most browsers automatically accept cookies by default, but you can usually refuse cookies or selectively accept cookies by adjusting the preferences in your browser. If you turn off cookies, there may be some features of our site that will not be available to you and some Web pages may not display properly.
You can find information on popular browsers and how to adjust your cookie preferences at the following websites:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.htm
- Mozilla Firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/psm/help_21/using_priv_help.html
Web beacons
Some HP.com and third-party Web pages and HTML-formatted email use Web beacons alone or in conjunction with cookies to compile information about your website usage and your interaction with email. A Web beacon is an electronic image, called a single-pixel (1x1) or clear GIF. Web beacons can recognize certain types of information on your computer such as cookies, the time and date of a page viewed, and a description of the page where the Web beacon is placed.
You may be able to disable Web beacons in email messages by not downloading images contained in the message you receive (this feature varies depending on the email software used on your personal computer). However, doing this may not always disable a Web beacon or other automatic data collection tools in the email message due to specific email software capabilities. For more information about this, please refer to the information provided by your email software or service provider.
If you choose to receive marketing emails or newsletters from HP as specified in Your choices and selecting your privacy preferences, HP may automatically collect personal information about you. For example, through Web beacons and personalized URLs embedded in these emails or newsletters, HP can track whether you've opened those messages and whether you've clicked on links contained within those messages. For more information on embedded Web links, see below.
Embedded Web links
Emails from HP, Internet keyboard keys preconfigured by HP, and promotional icons preinstalled on your PC desktop often use links designed to lead you to a relevant area on the Web, after redirection through HP's servers. The redirection system allows HP to change the destination URL of these links, if necessary, and to determine the effectiveness of our marketing initiatives.
In emails, such web links may also allow HP to determine whether you have clicked a link in an email, and this information about the interaction may be connected to your personal identity. If you do not want HP to collect information about the links that you click, you can:
- change your choice about how you receive communications from HP (i.e. choose a text-based version of the message where available) or choose not to click links in an email that HP sends
- delete the promotional icons preinstalled by HP on your PC desktop or choose not to click on those
- reconfigure the Internet keyboard keys on certain PC models to launch a destination URL of your choice by using the instructions provided with your PC
HP ads on third-party websites
HP contracts with service providers to place ads on websites owned by third parties. The service providers send cookies from and use Web beacons on these third-party websites. The cookies and Web beacons may enable HP to collect information about the pages you viewed and the links you clicked.
Information-gathering tools
HP may use tools to collect information about your experience on some HP websites. These tools do not involve the use of Web beacons or cookies, but record your interaction with an HP website as captured by an HP server. Certain tools, used in some countries, may enable HP to replay customer web sessions. These tools are used primarily for troubleshooting purposes; information collected by these tools will be stored for a limited period of time.
P3P technology
The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) is a new privacy technology developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). P3P technology can be found within your Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser and provides you with the ability to make more informed choices about the use of your personal information online. Enabling certain areas of our site with this new technology is another way that HP is on the leading edge of protecting your privacy.
Microsoft IE6 is the first browser to support the new privacy standard. With P3P, you can configure your browser to automatically detect if a website collects personally identifiable information, uses that information to create user profiles, or allows visitors to opt-out of the data collection.
A P3P-enabled browser has preset options from which you can choose. Or you may customize your setting by answering questions such as, what kinds of data are you willing to share and what types of "cookie" files are you willing to accept. As you surf the Web, the software then determines whether your privacy preferences match a site's data collection practices.
The P3P-enabled browser places special emphasis on cookies. A cookie is a piece of text which resides on your computer's hard drive to allow a Web application to respond to you as an individual. By gathering and remembering information about your preferences, the Web application can tailor its operation to your needs, likes and dislikes. With a P3P-enabled browser, you may be able to make selections based on whether you wish to accept various types of cookies such as session (temporary), permanent, within a given domain or outside it (third party), and with or without a special "P3P compact policy" file. A compact P3P policy describes the attributes of a given cookie.
10. Changes to this statement
If we change our privacy statement, we will post the revised statement here, with an updated revision date. If we make significant changes to our statement , we may also notify you by other means, such as sending an email or posting a notice on our home page.
11. Contacting us
We value your opinions. If you have comments or questions about our privacy statement, please send them to the HP Privacy Office or write to us at the following address:
Canada, Latin America, and United States:
HP Privacy Mailbox
11445 Compaq Center Drive W.
Mailstop 040307
Houston, Texas 77070
Europe, Middle East, and Africa:
EMEA Privacy Office
Hewlett Packard
1 Avenue du Canada
HP Les Ulis -91947 – France
Asia-Pacific and Japan:
HP APJ Privacy Office
Hewlett Packard
PO Box 384
Concord West, NSW 2138
Rev. March 2008